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Any Way You Want It · Journey

EXERCISE 10 OF 37
Groove I
82 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT
PART B
PART E
PART H
PART E
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGEWHP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Any Way You Want It on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-22, ride through bars 23-30, hi-hat through bars 31-46 and ride through bars 47-117.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 27-28 and 47-49, and 11 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |--g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-x---x---x-x-|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Any Way You Want It -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-61 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part H and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Any Way You Want It?

138 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Any Way You Want It hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED